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HMS Daedalus Frigate [Fifth Rate, 32 Gun] - Royal Navy
Built by John Fisher at Liverpool; launched 1780. Two decks.
Dimensions: length, 103 ft. [approx] breadth, 36 ft. [approx]; 702 tons. Guns: 26 x 12 pdr; 6 x 6 pdr; 6 x 24 pdr carronades. Crew: 250.
Sailed for East Indies in July 1799 and took part in operations in the Red Sea in September 1799. Remained on duty on the East Indies station until late 1802. From 1803-1806 HMS Daedalus served as part of the Trinity House fleet providing sea defence of the Thames and London (from French attack). Sailed for Jamaica in 1807; returned in 1810, and broken up at Sheerness in July 1811. Macquarie mentions HMS Daedalus on 7 December 1802 on its departure for England from Bombay under the command of Captain William Waller.
[Source: Lyon, D. The Sailing Navy List... 1688-1860. p. 84; Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: design, construction, careers and fates. London: Chatham Publishing, 2005 pp.197-198].

HMS Dauntless Frigate [Sixth Rate, 26 Gun] - Royal Navy
Built at Deptford Dockyard; launched 20 December 1808. Two decks.
Dimensions: length, 111 ft. [approx], 30 ft. [approx]; 426 tons. Guns: 16 x 32 Pounders; 8 x 18 Pounders; 2 x 6 Pounders. Crew: 125.
Commanded by Captain George Cornish Gambier in the period 1821-1823. Macquarie met Gambier during the voyage of the Dauntless from Ceylon to South America via Sydney in July 1821. The Dauntless departed for South America on 2 August 1821; returned to Sydney in March 1822, and during a visit to Botany Bay a bronze tablet was fitted to the rock on the spot where Captain James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks first landed in 1770; afterwards Dauntless sailed through Torres Strait to Trincomalee to rejoin the fleet; paid off at Portsmouth at the end of 1823; sold in December 1825.
[Sources: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: design, construction, careers and fates. London: Chatham Publishing, 2005 p.210; Lyon, D. The Sailing Navy List... 1688-1860. p. 262; Cumpston, J. L. Shipping Arrivals & Departures Sydney, 1788-1825. Canberra: Roebuck, 1977 pp.127 and 132].

Devonshire East Indiaman
Built by Pitcher at Northfleet; launched in 1804; 3 decks; length [approx] 146 ft., breadth [approx] 36 ft.; 820 tons.
Five (5) voyages to India and Ceylon in the period 1805-1814: (1) April 1805 - July 1806 (Madras & Ceylon); (2) April 1807 - August 1808 (Bombay & Ceylon); (3) April 1809 - July 1810 (Madras & Bengal); (4) May 1811 - July 1812 (Madras & Bengal); and (5) June 1813 - wrecked in Saugor Roads 2 July 1814. Commanded by Captain James Murray (1769-) on all five voyages.
Part of 1805 convoy conveying Lachlan Macquarie back to India.
[Source: Farrington, A. Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834. p.159].

HMS Dromedary Storeship [Fourth Rate, 24 Gun] - Royal Navy
Teak construction. Originally built at Bombay in 1799 as the Bombay 'country ship' Sha(w) Kai Kusseroo. Length: approx.150 ft.; breadth: 40 ft.; 1048 tons. Guns: 20 x 9 Pounders; 4 x 6 Pounders; Crew: 100.
Purchased by Royal Navy in India in 1805 for use as a frigate and re-named H.M.S. Howe; in 1808 re-named H.M.S. Dromedary and used as a naval storeship.
Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie travelled on board the Dromedary to New South Wales in 1809. Converted for use as a convict transport in 1819 and arrived in Sydney under the command of Captain Richard Skinner RN on 28 January 1820. The Dromedary transported 369 male convicts to Hobart (landing 347 prisoners) and Sydney (landing the remaining 22 men), as well as a guard detachment of 58 soldiers of the 69th. and 84th Regiments.
Thereafter the Dromedary sailed to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, to collect spars and timber supplies at Whangaroa for the Royal Navy, and returned to Sydney on 20 December 1820. Departed for England on 14 February 1821 carrying Commissioner J. T. Bigge and Secretary Thomas Hobbs Scott. Bigge and Scott had arrived in New South Wales in the John Barry in September 1819 and remained for two years investigating Lachlan Macquarie's administration.
In 1825 the Dromedary was sent to Bermuda where it remained in use as a convict hulk until it was eventually sold and broken up in 1864.
[Sources: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: design, construction, careers and fates. London: Chatham Publishing, 2005 p.175; Lyon, D. The Sailing Navy List... 1688-1860. p. 284; Cumpston, J. L. Shipping Arrivals & Departures Sydney, 1788-1825. Canberra: Roebuck, 1977 pp.119 and 124].

Dublin East Indiaman
Built by Wells, launched in 1784. Three decks; length: [approx.] 145 ft.; breadth: [approx.] 35 ft.; 786 tons.
Six (6) voyages to India and China between 1785 and 1800: (1) February 1785 - September 1786 (Madras & Bengal); (2) April 1788 - August 1789 (Bombay & Bengal); (3) May 1791 - June 1793 (Madras & China); (4) May 1794 - November 1795 (Madras & Bengal); (5) May 1796 - December 1797 (Madras & Bengal); and (6) April 1798 - June 1800 (China & Madras). Commanded by Captain William Smith (c.1756-) on 5 voyages in 1785-1797).
Lachlan Macquarie sailed to Bombay on board the Dublin in 1788 (on her [outward] second voyage), along with a contingent of men from the 77th. Regiment of Foot.

Duke of Montrose East Indiaman
Built by Randall, launched in 1784. Three decks; length: [approx.] 143 ft.; breadth: [approx.] 35 ft.; 762 tons.
Eight (8) voyages to India and China between 1785 and 1808: (1) March 1785 - May 1787 (Bombay & China); (2) April 1788 - April 1786 (China); (3) March 1792 - June 1793 (Bombay); (4) May 1794 - July 1795 (Bombay); (5) September 1797 - August 1799 (Madras & Bengal); (6) March 1801 - August 1802 (Madras & Bengal); (7) July 1804 - February 1806 (Madras); and (8) February 1807 - December 1808 (St Helena, Bengal & Penang).
Lachlan Macquarie mentions the Duke of Montrose in July 1788 during his voyage to Bombay on board the Dublin.
[Source: Farrington, A. Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834. pp.183-184].

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